DISPLAY LINKING SYSTEM

• US 20190056813A1
• Filed: 06/28/2018
• Published: 02/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Westunitis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Westunitis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: FUKUDA, Takahito, KINOSHITA, Tadatoshi
• Application Number:
  US16/021,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20190056813A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

The invention provides a system that can use processing capacity of a smartphone or the like and can display a predetermined part of a screen that displays the processing result on an HMD. Vertically-long image data 23 is changed to horizontally-long output image data 31 and is then output from an output section 24. A part of the vertically-long output image data 23 (in this example, one third thereof on an upper side) is an overlapping display region 25. This overlapping display region 25 is a region that is displayed on a head-mounted display (HMD) 6. A converter 4 receives the horizontally-long output image data 31, converts this to HDMI data, and identifies a central portion 33 that corresponds to the vertically-long image data 23. Furthermore, the converter 4 extracts an overlapping display region 35 from this central portion 33, the overlapping display region 35 corresponding to the overlapping display region 25 of the vertically-long image data 23. The converter 4 outputs data on the extracted overlapping display region 35 as HMD display data 40 for the HMD 6. The HMD 6 displays the received HMD display data 40.

Claims

1-26. -26. (canceled)

27. A converter that receives external output display data from a mobile terminal and generates horizontally-long HMD display data to be displayed on a head-mounted display (HMD), the mobile terminal outputting vertically-long display data that is displayed on a touch display as the external output display data corresponding to a horizontally-long HMD screen, wherein

a partial region that is a specified partial region of the touch display and that corresponds to the horizontally-long HMD screen is set as an overlapping display region, and

the converter extracts display data of the overlapping display region from a region that corresponds to the vertically-long display data included in a central portion of the received external output display data so as to generate the HMD display data.

28. The converter according to claim 27, wherein

the mobile terminal is fixed to the vertically-long display mode.

29. The converter according to claim 27, wherein

in the touch display of the mobile terminal, display for the touch input is not provided in the overlapping display region.

30. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touch display that allows touch input;

a processor configured to outputs vertically-long display data displayed on the touch display as external output display data corresponding to a horizontally-long HMD screen and configured to receive the external output display data and generates horizontally-long HMD display data to be displayed on a head-mounted display (HMD), wherein

a partial region that is a specified partial region of the touch display and that corresponds to the horizontally-long HMD screen is set as an overlapping display region, and

the processor is configured to extract display data of the overlapping display region from a region that corresponds to the vertically-long display data included in a central portion of the received external output display data so as to generate the HMD display data.

31. The terminal according to claim 30, wherein

the conversion means fixes a switching means switching the touch display between vertically-long display and horizontally-long display to the vertically-long display.

32. The terminal according to claim 30, wherein

in the touch display of the mobile terminal, display for the touch input is not provided in the overlapping display region.

33. A converter that receives external output display data from a mobile terminal and generates HMD display data to be displayed on a head-mounted display (HMD) screen, the mobile terminal outputting display data that is displayed on a touch display as the external output display data, wherein

a partial region that is a specified partial region of the touch display and that corresponds to the HMD screen is set as an overlapping display region, and

the converter converts the external output display data to the HMD display data on the basis of a combination of a model of the mobile terminal and a model of the head-mounted display, each of which is connected thereto.

34. The converter according to claim 33, wherein

in the case where either one of the model of the connected mobile terminal and the connected head-mounted display is determined in advance, the external output display data is converted to the HMD display data on the basis of the model of the other.

35. The converter according to claim 33, wherein

in the case where the display data becomes vertically-long display data due to the combination of the model of the mobile terminal and the model of the head-mounted display and the external output display data corresponds to the horizontally-long HMD screen as a whole that includes the vertically-long display data in a central portion thereof,

of a region that corresponds to the vertically-long display data included in the central portion of the received external output display data, the converter extracts display data of the overlapping display region so as to generate the HMD display data.

36. A mobile terminal comprising:

a touch display that allows touch input;

a processor configured to externally output display data displayed on the touch display as external output display data; and

configured to receive the external output display data from the output means and generates HMD display data to be displayed on a head-mounted display (HMD), wherein

a partial region that is a specified partial region of the touch display and that corresponds to an HMD screen is set as an overlapping display region, and

the processor is configured to convert the external output display data to the HMD display data on the basis of a combination of a model of the mobile terminal and a model of the head-mounted display, each of which is connected thereto.

37. The terminal according to claim 36, wherein

in the case where either one of the model of the mobile terminal and the head-mounted display, each of which is connected thereto, is determined in advance, the external output display data is converted to the HMD display data on the basis of the model of the other.

38. The terminal according to claim 36, wherein

in the case where the display data becomes vertically-long display data due to the combination of the model of the mobile terminal and the model of the head-mounted display and the external output display data becomes HDMI data that includes that corresponds to the horizontally-long HMD screen as a whole including the vertically-long display data in a central portion thereof,

the converter extracts display data of the overlapping display region from a region that corresponds to the vertically-long display data included in the central portion of the received HDMI data so as to generate the HMD display data.